Five Beautiful Blessings Between Heaven & Earth

Last night after Aaron and Bridgett and I got back from visiting Grandma and Grandpa I decided despite the late hour and the need to still feed the kids dinner... that it was haircut time!!! Bridgett really needed a bang trim at least but I also wanted to give her a trim all over.  It's the first time I've actually really cut her hair more than trimming her bangs.  I was pretty nervous but I think it turned out ok,  What do you think? Front....  Back....  I love it,  I know it's short but she just looks like a little pixi and I think it's darling.  She hates the blow dryer (I think it hurts her ears) so it just seems a lot easier to keep it short where it does it's own natural curl thing instead of hanging limp and straight.   This was Aaron hair cut.  Yea I know his pretty much always looks the same.  He always asks me if he can grow it out and I say sure but that means that you'll have to let me comb it every morning. (whic...

Tonight was our monthly support group meeting.   I was actually looking forward to it, and hoping that it would be a good meeting.  I have found some really wonderful friends there.  There were a lot of new people there tonight and I've never seen it so full.   Which of course is not a good thing.  It always makes me sad to think that someone else has to loose a baby too. However it was NOT a good meeting tonight.  I'm totally baffled how someone can sit in a room full of people who have ALL lost a child in one way or another and say that no one knows what they are going through and that what they went through is far worse than what everyone else has gone through... Yea for me personally a miscarriage would be far easier than what we did go through for Colette, but I would never say to anyone that had a miscarriage that what I went through was far worse than what they went through.  I would never dream of it!  Yet I had to sit through ...

Today makes one year since the day that Colette joined our little family.  It was an interesting day.  It was not as hard as I thought it would be.  To be honest the last two weeks before this day were much harder than the actual day was.  Which is actually really weird.  But I have to admit that all of today I just felt a sense of peace, It's like Heavenly Father was just sending another conformation that while this is hard,  this is how and what is supposed to be.  And that was such a comfort on the day that should have been her first birthday.    The day started as usual,  Aaron and Bridgett got up early and came into our room.  Aaron announced that it was Colette's Birthday.  It was cute to hear him say that.  Once we got up and got moving we were about to leave the house when Grandma Smith called,  She wanted to know if we were going to be home for a while,  I told her that we were just getting ready to ...

Yesterday Aaron came home from school with tickets to a Basketball game for tonight.  So this morning I managed to talk his Dad into taking him to the Game.  Sports are not Daddy's fav thing but he will do anything for his son who seems to love sports.  I managed to grab a couple more free tickets from a friend who's kids would not be able to go to the game and Daddy invited Grandma Smith, and Grandma and Grandpa Teetah and Ken.  Grandpa Ken was SO excited!  He loves sports and to know that his Grandson was also interested in sports I'm pretty sure was very exciting for him to realize.  So off to get dinner and go to the game the 4 of them went.  Bridgett and I stayed home since it would be WAY past her bed time.  Dusty of course took photos for me.   Look who got new hats!  Lucky guys!! Here Aaron is checking out the half time show.   And of course we have to play with our loose tooth while at the game too! I think everyone had...

Right now I am listening to the most beautiful talk about death that I have ever heard.  This one for sure will be book marked on my computer and listened to often.  http://www.byub.org/talks/ Talk.aspx?id=3990 What wonderful comfort for those of us who have lost loved ones,  children, or friends.   I have said it before but I say it again,  How grateful I am for the teaching of the Gospel,  While loosing Colette is hard and still painful,  the Gospel's sweet peace speaks comfort to my very soul.   

This afternoon when I went to get the mail I found a surprise on the front porch.  I love getting mail!  :)  Makes a whole day happier!  This one was from my good friend Shay.  She sent some wonderful daisy things to make me smile on Colette's Birthday,  and one of them was the cutest wreath,  so happy and bright.  We've taken to calling it our Colette wreath,  We hang it up on our front door from the day of her birthday for the week until her funeral.  and she sent some daisy magnets which are now on the fridge,  and some daisy stickers. and some daisy stationary that I have already used.  and here was my most favorite thing :D isn't it darling????  I love it!  cutest little metal daisy I've ever seen,  I would put it up at Colette's headstone but I worry that someone might take it so right now it's sitting in a vase in the kitchen where it smiles at me every day,  and in the spring I'm going to put ...

Tonight was New Beginnings for the Young Woman.  What does that have to do with me?  Well normally nothings.  I don't have a calling in YW's  I don't have a daughter old enough to go.  And yet last night I was there.   A couple of days ago my neighbor Jill called and asked if I would be willing to come to their New Beginnings night and take photos of the girls.  Their theme was "don't drop the ball"  and all the girls were invited to come in their most formal dresses.  They wanted it to be an elegant evening.  So I told her that I would be happy to take photos for them.  I asked her if they needed some cupcakes for the even and she said some of "Julia's cupcakes" would be great if I have time!.  To be honest I think I was more excited about having an excuse to make some really elegant cupcakes than the photography.  How sad is that?  So all through the beginning of this week I worked on different parts of my cupc...

The things most precious to my heart begin with A B C Aaron              Bridgett                              Colette

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Today was Nannie's Birthday!  So since Mom was out of town visiting my brother's family we decided to have her and Papa and Dad over for dinner.  And of course I had to make dessert!  Can you guess what it was?  Nannie is a huge chocolate fan so I made some chocolate cupcakes with chocolate ganache for frosting.  They turned out really pretty!   Of course Aaron and Bridgett were in heaven!  Aaron's favorite sweet is still chocolate and I don't often make chocolate cupcakes especially with chocolate frosting.  He and Bridgett licked every bight clean.    I sent a dozen home with Nannie and Papa and then after everyone left I still had 18 cupcakes left :(  Not such a good thing when you are only 10 days sugar free.  So I boxed them up and tried to figure out who I should doorbell ditch them too.  I asked Dusty who he thought I should take them too and he suggested that I just put on face-book that I have fresh from scratc...